{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = John Gilday | honorific_suffix = | image = StateLibQld 1 65199 Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party (Assembly) Session, 1921.jpg | caption = Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party (Assembly) 1921 - Gilday is third from the left - Second row | constituency_AM1 = Ithaca | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 27 Apr 1912 | term_end1 = 8 May 1926 | predecessor1 = New seat | successor1 = Ned Hanlon | birth_date = 1874 | birth_place = Ballarat, Victoria, Australia | death_date = 29 August 1937 (aged 62 or 63) | death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | resting_place = Toowong Cemetery | birth_name = John Theophilus Gilday | party = Labor | other_party = | spouse = Mary Walker (m.1899 d.1953) | known_for = | occupation = Meatworker | relations = | alma_mater = }}
'''John Theophilus Gilday''' (1874 – 29 August 1937) was a meatworker and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.<ref name=qp>{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1284838652|accessdate=4 April 2016}}</ref>
==Biography== Gilday was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to parents Martin Gilday and his wife Honorah (née Corcoran). He went to Ballarat State School and became a meatworker in New South Wales. He was a director of the ''Daily Standard'' & ''The Worker'' newspapers.<ref name=qp/>
On 1 February 1899, he married Mary Walker (died 1953)<ref name=bdm>[https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/ Family history research] — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 26 March 2016.</ref> in Brisbane and together had two sons and two daughters. He died in August 1937<ref name=qp/> and his funeral proceeded from his late residence in Paddington to the Toowong Cemetery.<ref name=funeralnotice >{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37048650 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=1248 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=31 August 1937 |accessdate=4 April 2016 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Public career== Gilday, for the Labor Party, held the seat of Ithaca in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from its inception in 1912 until his retirement from politics in 1926.<ref name=qp/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilday, John Theophilus}} Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:1874 births Category:1937 deaths Category:Burials at Toowong Cemetery Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland